firkin

Example Sentences

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He uses an antique wooden firkin once used for storing flour and sugar to sit on that the older French speaking duck hunters call a “bedon.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2020

In the flesh, Ruth Davidson, 37, is a firkin of fun, speaks with a machine-gun delivery and can hold her own.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2016

An ancient dame a firkin sees, In which the rich Falernian lees Send from the nobly tinctured shell A rare and most delicious smell!

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

For every firkin, pot, cask, or other vessel of butter, one penny. 

From Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee by Committee, Knaresbrough Rail-way

Brought aboard a firkin o' Graham-biscuit,—jest the meal mixed up with water,—no salt, no emptins, no nuthin'.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various